Hi Michael, On 13.07.21 09:06, Michael Leukert - AMPEGON wrote: > Thank you for your assistance and the useful hints at your link > (https://flashrom.org/Downloads). After some struggles with the > prerequisites, we were finally able to install it from source (with FTDI > support), and our program is now working.
grats! :) > > I don't have a lot of experience with package managers, but it seems to me > that we had to recursively uninstall and reinstall an unreasonably large > number of packages by hand in order to satisfy the exact version requirements > for each prerequisite of flashrom. In fact we destroyed our ubuntu > installation several times and had to restore from image before finding our > way through the recursive mess of dependencies to a working solution. wow, that seems odd. It's very unusual. I guess your Ubuntu was either not in a very original state (e.g. non-default package repositories) or in a very unlucky state. Or maybe you did use a high level program that got confused by the dependencies? I just had to try and it worked in docker, log below. I ran `apt-get install` for each dependency in the order given in the wiki. For our build tests, we create a Docker image where we just pass everything at once to `apt-get` which works too. Doing this by hand, I noticed that the wiki was outdated wrt. libusb. We use libusb-1.0 only by now. Last but not least, I tried installing libudev-dev only. Turns out there is no dependency on libpci-dev. Maybe that was an error that got corrected sometime? Nico > [icon@bob ~]$ docker run -it --rm ubuntu:xenial > Unable to find image 'ubuntu:xenial' locally > xenial: Pulling from library/ubuntu > 61e03ba1d414: Pull complete > 4afb39f216bd: Pull complete > e489abdc9f90: Pull complete > 999fff7bcc24: Pull complete > Digest: > sha256:1b733ff6c7c7aac32101a35cb2c6399ca8c399a9f6de62a386abe26c65b59b9e > Status: Downloaded newer image for ubuntu:xenial > root@9f4291ed0a07:/# cat /etc/lsb-release > DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu > DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04 > DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS" > root@9f4291ed0a07:/# apt-get update > Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [247 kB] > Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB] > Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [109 kB] > Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB] > Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1558 kB] > Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/restricted amd64 Packages [14.1 > kB] > Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages [9827 > kB] > Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages > [2051 kB] > Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/restricted amd64 > Packages [15.9 kB] > Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 > Packages [984 kB] > Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/multiverse amd64 > Packages [8820 B] > Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 Packages [176 > kB] > Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages > [2559 kB] > Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/restricted amd64 > Packages [16.4 kB] > Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 > Packages [1544 kB] > Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 > Packages [26.2 kB] > Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main amd64 Packages > [10.9 kB] > Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 > Packages [12.7 kB] > Fetched 19.4 MB in 3s (5301 kB/s) > Reading package lists... Done > root@9f4291ed0a07:/# apt-get install pciutils-dev > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Note, selecting 'libpci-dev' instead of 'pciutils-dev' > The following additional packages will be installed: > libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libpci3 libudev-dev linux-libc-dev manpages > manpages-dev zlib1g-dev > Suggested packages: > glibc-doc man-browser > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libpci-dev libpci3 libudev-dev linux-libc-dev > manpages manpages-dev zlib1g-dev > 0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 6502 kB of archives. > After this operation, 25.0 MB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libudev-dev > amd64 229-4ubuntu21.31 [150 kB] > Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libpci3 > amd64 1:3.3.1-1.1ubuntu1.3 [24.3 kB] > Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 manpages all 4.04-2 > [1087 kB] > Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libc-dev-bin > amd64 2.23-0ubuntu11.3 [68.6 kB] > Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 > linux-libc-dev amd64 4.4.0-210.242 [832 kB] > Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libc6-dev > amd64 2.23-0ubuntu11.3 [2083 kB] > Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 zlib1g-dev > amd64 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.3 [167 kB] > Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libpci-dev > amd64 1:3.3.1-1.1ubuntu1.3 [42.8 kB] > Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 manpages-dev all > 4.04-2 [2048 kB] > Fetched 6502 kB in 1s (5554 kB/s) > debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed > Selecting previously unselected package libudev-dev:amd64. > (Reading database ... 4785 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack .../libudev-dev_229-4ubuntu21.31_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libudev-dev:amd64 (229-4ubuntu21.31) ... > Selecting previously unselected package libpci3:amd64. > Preparing to unpack .../libpci3_1%3a3.3.1-1.1ubuntu1.3_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libpci3:amd64 (1:3.3.1-1.1ubuntu1.3) ... > Selecting previously unselected package manpages. > Preparing to unpack .../manpages_4.04-2_all.deb ... > Unpacking manpages (4.04-2) ... > Selecting previously unselected package libc-dev-bin. > Preparing to unpack .../libc-dev-bin_2.23-0ubuntu11.3_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libc-dev-bin (2.23-0ubuntu11.3) ... > Selecting previously unselected package linux-libc-dev:amd64. > Preparing to unpack .../linux-libc-dev_4.4.0-210.242_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking linux-libc-dev:amd64 (4.4.0-210.242) ... > Selecting previously unselected package libc6-dev:amd64. > Preparing to unpack .../libc6-dev_2.23-0ubuntu11.3_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libc6-dev:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu11.3) ... > Selecting previously unselected package zlib1g-dev:amd64. > Preparing to unpack .../zlib1g-dev_1%3a1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.3_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking zlib1g-dev:amd64 (1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.3) ... > Selecting previously unselected package libpci-dev. > Preparing to unpack .../libpci-dev_1%3a3.3.1-1.1ubuntu1.3_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libpci-dev (1:3.3.1-1.1ubuntu1.3) ... > Selecting previously unselected package manpages-dev. > Preparing to unpack .../manpages-dev_4.04-2_all.deb ... > Unpacking manpages-dev (4.04-2) ... > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu11.3) ... > Setting up libudev-dev:amd64 (229-4ubuntu21.31) ... > Setting up libpci3:amd64 (1:3.3.1-1.1ubuntu1.3) ... > Setting up manpages (4.04-2) ... > Setting up libc-dev-bin (2.23-0ubuntu11.3) ... > Setting up linux-libc-dev:amd64 (4.4.0-210.242) ... > Setting up libc6-dev:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu11.3) ... > Setting up zlib1g-dev:amd64 (1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.3) ... > Setting up libpci-dev (1:3.3.1-1.1ubuntu1.3) ... > Setting up manpages-dev (4.04-2) ... > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu11.3) ... > root@9f4291ed0a07:/# apt-get install zlib1g-dev > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > zlib1g-dev is already the newest version (1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4.3). > zlib1g-dev set to manually installed. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > root@9f4291ed0a07:/# apt-get install libftdi-dev > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following additional packages will be installed: > libftdi1 libusb-dev > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libftdi-dev libftdi1 libusb-dev > 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 211 kB of archives. > After this operation, 2276 kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libftdi1 amd64 > 0.20-4build1 [15.2 kB] > Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libusb-dev amd64 > 2:0.1.12-28 [29.9 kB] > Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libftdi-dev > amd64 0.20-4build1 [166 kB] > Fetched 211 kB in 0s (1038 kB/s) > debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed > Selecting previously unselected package libftdi1:amd64. > (Reading database ... 8522 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack .../libftdi1_0.20-4build1_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libftdi1:amd64 (0.20-4build1) ... > Selecting previously unselected package libusb-dev. > Preparing to unpack .../libusb-dev_2%3a0.1.12-28_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libusb-dev (2:0.1.12-28) ... > Selecting previously unselected package libftdi-dev. > Preparing to unpack .../libftdi-dev_0.20-4build1_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libftdi-dev (0.20-4build1) ... > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu11.3) ... > Setting up libftdi1:amd64 (0.20-4build1) ... > Setting up libusb-dev (2:0.1.12-28) ... > Setting up libftdi-dev (0.20-4build1) ... > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu11.3) ... > root@9f4291ed0a07:/# apt-get install libusb-dev > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > libusb-dev is already the newest version (2:0.1.12-28). > libusb-dev set to manually installed. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > root@9f4291ed0a07:/# apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following additional packages will be installed: > libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-doc > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-doc > 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 262 kB of archives. > After this operation, 1808 kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libusb-1.0-0 amd64 > 2:1.0.20-1 [42.9 kB] > Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libusb-1.0-0-dev > amd64 2:1.0.20-1 [58.5 kB] > Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libusb-1.0-doc all > 2:1.0.20-1 [160 kB] > Fetched 262 kB in 0s (1051 kB/s) > debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed > Selecting previously unselected package libusb-1.0-0:amd64. > (Reading database ... 8696 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack .../libusb-1.0-0_2%3a1.0.20-1_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libusb-1.0-0:amd64 (2:1.0.20-1) ... > Selecting previously unselected package libusb-1.0-0-dev:amd64. > Preparing to unpack .../libusb-1.0-0-dev_2%3a1.0.20-1_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libusb-1.0-0-dev:amd64 (2:1.0.20-1) ... > Selecting previously unselected package libusb-1.0-doc. > Preparing to unpack .../libusb-1.0-doc_2%3a1.0.20-1_all.deb ... > Unpacking libusb-1.0-doc (2:1.0.20-1) ... > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu11.3) ... > Setting up libusb-1.0-0:amd64 (2:1.0.20-1) ... > Setting up libusb-1.0-0-dev:amd64 (2:1.0.20-1) ... > Setting up libusb-1.0-doc (2:1.0.20-1) ... > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu11.3) ... _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list -- flashrom@flashrom.org To unsubscribe send an email to flashrom-le...@flashrom.org
